The big picture: AA's new business class seat
Published: 27/01/2012 - Filed under: News »
As flagged up by a poster on the Business Traveller forum, American Airlines has published an interior rendering of its new fully-flat business class seat on its forthcoming B777-300ER aircraft, which shows a 1-2-1 herringbone layout.
The carrier announced plans for the news seat in November last year, just weeks after going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (see online news November 30, 2011).
At the time AA said the seat would allow all passengers to have aisle access, but only now has it unveiled an image of the new product.
The US carrier is to take delivery of ten B777-300ERs in 2012 and 2013, with the new business class offering set to debut on its Sao Paulo route later this year, followed by flights to London.
For more information visit aa.com.
Report by Mark Caswell
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Ian_from_HKG - 03/02/2012 02:36
BT, are you sure you have the right picture here? This looks spookily like the new CX business class...
BusinessTraveller - 03/02/2012 21:46
Thanks for your comment Ian_from_HKG - the image does indeed look very similar to that of Cathay Pacific's new business class. So much so that we ran a piece comparing images from the two carriers' cabins side by side, which can be seen here:
http://www.businesstraveller.com/news/aa-to-join-cathay-in-business-class-seat-choice
There has been no confirmation from AA as to the provider of its new seat, but from the images it would appear to be the same as that chosen by Cathay.
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